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>I don't have any links about this. This is my own view on an ideal future. I haven't come across any objections to it.

This is what I am talking about. Ethereum supporters think it is going to make the economy into an anarchist-libertarian techno-paradise, but they don't present specific ideas and write them up so they can be subjected to critical scrutiny. You know, lots of ideas seem great until you try to work them out.

My own thought is that economics starts with basic needs and desires, like for food, shelter, health care, internet access, and so on. Today these are provided largely by small and medium enterprises, and people earn their money working for them. I don't see how most of these things could be provided by DAPS, and so I conclude Ethereum isn't going to make much difference to the average person.




Here's a more detailed write-up on it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/61lg8g/the_robo...

You're right that there are no complete road maps written out. But proponents of this vision can hardly be blamed for not being able to create a detailed plan for things they believe will be invented. It will necessarily be impossible to predict exactly what form the future will take. Yet we can make reasonable extrapolations based on the nature of knowledge, and the role knowledge plays in investment.




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